“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”

― Leo Tolstoy

1681 Pierre Danican Philidor, French composer. Douxiéme Suitte op.3, and Cinquième suite in E minor, and Air en Musette for oboe and continuo

1771 Henry Maudslay, English inventor of the metal lathe.

1862  Claude Debussy, French composer. Rêverie

1867 Charles Francis Jenkins, American Inventor (altimeter, automobile self-starter, and early television pioneer)

1896 Laurence McKinley Gould, American Geologist and Polar Explorer who was chief scientist and second-in-command on the first expedition to the interior of Antarctica in 1929

1915 James Hillier, Canadian-American inventor (co-created the electron microscope)

1920 Ray Bradbury, American sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451)

MISCELLANY:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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